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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:23:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Luke Parrish <>
Subject: Re: uppity_cryonet_members

From: "Warren Keevers" <>

> I do "believe" cryonics is possible, I very much doubt it will
> happen in any of our lifetimes, I also doubt that any of the people
> you put on ice will ever be brought back.

The trouble is you are using a sci-fi definition of cryonics that
isn't what actual cryonicists use. Cryonics is when you preserve
someone in the unproven hopes that future technology can reverse
their condition. There's no debate about whether that's possible
because it's *by definition* what is already being done.

What you're trying to express is doubt that this will actually work
(which is understandable, but remember we *all* have doubts whether it
will work) and hope that eventually we will develop suspended
animation so this kind of cryonics won't be necessary. Sure, that's
great... we all hope a provably reversible kind of suspended animation
will become available in our lifetimes. It just hasn't happened yet,
and is a completely different topic from cryonics.

You aren't alone in confusing the definitions and what cryonicists are
actually talking about. Most people who dispute with cryonics don't
understand the idea completely either.

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